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Subject(s)

• United States—Foreign relations—2009-2017 [Browse]
• United States—Politics and government—2009-2017 [Browse]
• Obama, Barack [Browse]

Summary note

This book explores how rivalling discourses of American grand strategy reveal a fractured consensus of geopolitical identity and national security under President Obama. This conflict manifested in divergent elite visions of liberal hegemony, cooperative engagement and unilateral restraint. Georg Lofflmann examines the identity conflict within the Washington foreign policy establishment, between elite insiders and outsiders, and how the 'Obama Doctrine' both confirmed a geopolitical vision of American exceptionalism and challenged established notions of US hegemony and world leadership.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-258) and index.

Contents

• Introduction
• Reimagining grand strategy
• Filming hegemony : Hollywood and the Manichean script of geopolitics
• Competing visions for America : popular discourses of grand strategy on The New York Times best-sellers list
• The American grand strategy debate in international relations
• Think tanks and the Washington consensus on hegemony
• Strategic vision : national security, defense policy, and the geopolitics of military pre-eminence
• The 'Obama doctrine' : vision for change?
• Conclusion.

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ISBN

• 9781474419765 (hardback)
• 1474419763 (hardback)
• 9781474445733 ((paperback))
• 147444573X ((paperback))

LCCN

2017446789

OCLC

993492242

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